6:24 AM,
May 22, 2013

Residents pass a destroyed car as they walk through a tornado-ravaged neighborhood Tuesday in Moore, Okla.

Written by

Nomaan Merchant
and Sean Murphy

The search for survivors and the dead is nearly complete in the Oklahoma City suburb that was smashed by a mammoth tornado, the fire chief said Tuesday.

Gary Bird said he's "98 percent sure" there are no more survivors or bodies to recover under the rubble in Moore, a community of 56,000 people.

His comments came after emergency crews spent much of the day searching the town's broken remnants for survivors of the twister that flattened homes and demolished an elementary school. The storm killed at least 24 people, including at least nine children. ...